If You Didn’t Have to Think Anything or See Anything, How Can You Struggle?
The mind's resistance when approaching clarity is natural; rather than fighting it with questioning and fear, trust and simply not picking up the 'me' again allows it to dissolve.
[Reading from the chat] One says ‘Father for some reason I feel a massive uphill in thoughts.’
Yes, it can be. Guruji [Sri Mooji] has this beauHful video, ‘The mind can be crazy’ or something like that it’s called. It’s a beauHful video about how, many Hmes it can happen that the instant you start coming to this simple clarity, how the mind (the mind and his cousin Guruji says) can just be like… ‘Come, come, this one is leaving us, come, we all come.’ So that uphill is very natural that it happens. Yes, we have to transcend that we don’t have to add to it saying ‘Why is it happening? It should not happen. Oh, will I lose what I found?’ That is exactly the kind of response or belief system that it [the mind] wants to create. And that’s why a bit of devoHonal temperament can really help. A bit of trust can really help to say ‘Yes something is taking care of me. It has brought these insights here; this will also be taken care of.’ If you are not so strong or courageous in a way that you can just [some gesture of the hand in air] you can just drop this ‘me’… [if] it doesn’t feel that we have this in us during someHmes [then] during those Hmes a bit of trust can help, some devoHon can help. Again you don’t have to drop it. Just don’t pick it up.
Key Teachings
- When you come to simple clarity, the mind naturally creates uphill struggles and obstacles - this is part of the process, not something wrong
- Instead of adding mental commentary like 'why is this happening?' or 'will I lose what I found?', trust and devotion can help carry you through
- You don't have to forcefully drop the sense of 'me' - simply refrain from picking it up again
From: If You Didn’t Have to Think Anything or See Anything, How Can You Struggle? - 29th July 2019